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GRANT MEMORIAL 



GRANT 



Mcniopial Services, 



PROVIDENCE, R. I 



.if^TjLg"u.st S, ISSS 



THE DEPARTMENT OF RHODE ISLAND, GRAND ARMY OF THE 

REPUBLIC, AND THE VETERAN ASSOCIATIONS 

OF THE STATE. 



I'UBLISIIED I!Y ORDER OK THE DEl'ARTMENT. 



PROVIDENCE: 

E. L FKEEMAN & SON, PRINTERS TO THE STATE. 
1888. 



Gift 

Author. 

3 iit907 



l9troddetio9. 

The steps taken in g-athering- the material and preparing- 
the historical memorial here presented, meeting a general 
and deep desire on the part of veteran soldiers and also of 
patriotic citizens, may be explained by the following official 
records : 

At the twentieth annual encampment of the Department of 
Rhode Island, Grand Army of the Eepnl)lic, Jan. 28, 1887, 
Department Commander, Theodore A. Barton, in his annual 
address had the following: 

"grant memorial seryice. 

In view of its historic value, and that the same may be i3re- 
served as a living memorial of our illustrious and beloved 
comrade, U. S. Grant, I have the honor to recommend that 
the Proceedings of the Grant Memorial Service, held on the 
8th of August, 1885, under the auspices of the Department of 
Ehode Island, Grand Army of the Republic and Veteran 
Associations of Rhode Island, in Music Hall, Providence, be 
printed at an early date." 



Providence, Oct. 20th, 1887. 

At a meeting of the Council of Administration, held this 
date, the following Resolutions were adopted : 

Resolved, That Junior Vice Department Commander, Alonzo Wil- 
liams, and Past Department Commander, Horatio Sogers be, and are 
liereby appointed a committee to consider tlie feasibility of publishing 
the " Solemn Service" held in Mnsic Hall, Providence, Saturday, Aug. 
8th, 1885, in honor of .our deceased comrade, Gen. U. S. Grant. 

liesolved, That if in their judgment it is advisable, they be requested 
to prepare the "Service" for publication. 

E. Henry Jenks, 



■4 GRANT MEMOPiIAL. 

Pkovidence, Feb. 4tli, 1888. 

At tlie animal oiicampmeiit of tlie Department of Rhode 
Island, G. A. E., held in Slocmn Post Hall, Feb. 4th, 1888, 
the committee appointed by the Council of Administration 
to consider the advisability of printing the "Grant Memorial 
Service," recommended the publication, and the following 
Resolution was offered by Department Chaplain Denison and 
adopted by the Encampment : 

Resolved. That the committee on the "Grant Memorial Service" be 
instructed to have printed 500 copies of the Service, and that the Coun- 
cil of Administration he authorized to sell them at 10 cents each. 

On motion, Chaplain Denison was added to the committee. 

E. Hekry Jenks, ^1. ^1. G. 

To a proper presentation of the Memorial Services which 
expressed the deepest feelings of all the people, it was 
thought best to present withal a portion of the official papers, 
both civil and military, issued in connection with the occa- 
sion, and also a few^ of the press notices of the proceedings, 
especially as these spoke the sentiments and heart-beats of 
the multitude. A just record should aim to give the impres- 
sions made at the time by the demonstrations and exercises, 
while it i^resents the formal addresses that were made. The 
services were of the heart, tender, warm and tearful, and 
gi-eatly deepened and hallowed, in all bosoms, the love of 
country and the apjireciation of noble character. It is such 
considerations that amply justify this memorial. 

The Committee. 



PAGE. 

Governor's Anuoimcemeut C 

Mayor's Announcement 7 

Action of Veterans 8 

Council Order ^ 

Department Order 10 

Governor's Proclamation 11 

The Funeral Day 12 

The Thought of the Hour 14 

The Day of Mourning 16 

The Parade 18 

The Programme 20 

The Memorial Service 22 

Address by Gen. Horatio Eogers 23 

Address by Prof. Alonzo Williams 28 

Address by Prof. E. B. Andrews 34 

Address by Dr. W. F. Hutchinson 40 

Address by Hon. N. W. Aldrich : 42 

Press Notice 45 

Dirge, by Frederic Denison— Department Chaplain 47 



(Joi/err^or's f\r)r)OLiT)<:.en\e[)t. 

State of Ehode Island. 

Adjutant General's Office, 

Providence, Jiily 30tli, 1885. 
General Orders No. 7. 

I. The Conmiander-in-Clnef, with profound regret an- 
nounces the death of General Ulysses S. Grant. 

II. As a tribute of respect to the memory of this illustrious 
soldier, the officers of the militia Avill wear the usual badge of 
mourning- for three months, and upon occasions of ceremony 
all regimental and liattalion colors, and the guidons of cav- 
alry and artillery wiU be furled and draped with crape for the 
same period. 

III. On the day of the funeral the commanding- officer of 
the NeAvport Artillery will cause minute guns to be fired in 
the city of Newport, and the commanding officer of Battery 
A, Light Artillery, R. I. M. , will cause minute guns to be 
fired in the city of Providence, during the hours of the 
funeral ceremonies, to the number of sixty-three, or one for 
each year of General Grant's life, and at the setting of the 
sun a national salute of thirty-eight guns. By order of 

George Peabody Wetmore, 
Governor and Commander-in- Chief. 
Elisha Dyer, Jr., Adjutant General. 



(T)ayor'5 pp^oij^^eme^t. 



City of Providence. 

Executive Department, 

City Hall, July 23, 1885. 

The Mayor, with feeliug-s of deep regret, announces to the 
citizens of Providence the sad intelligence of the decease at 
8:09 a. m., at Mt. McGregor, N. Y., of the illustrious soldier 
and statesman, Gen, Ulysses S. Grant, after a long season of 
sufit'ering, which he has endured with heroic patience and 
fortitude; and through the various stag-es of which he has 
been followed by the prayers and solicitude of the entire 
country. 

Out of respect to the distinguished dead, the national flag 
upon the City Hall will be kept at half-mast until sunset of 
the day of the funeral, and the other public flags will be dis- 
l^layed from sunrise to sunset on that day. 

The Grand Army of the Republic will hold a memorial ser- 
vice at 10:30 a. m., at which time the bells of the several 
churches will commence tolling and continue one hour. 

His Excellency the Governor having appointed Saturday, 
the 8th of August inst. (the day set apart for the funeral), as 
a day of solemn fast, the City Hall and Executive Depart- 
ments of the Municipal Government will be closed and busi- 
ness suspended. 

The Mayor earnestly requests that all places of business, 
workshops and manufactories be also closed on that day; 
also that emblems of mourning be displayed throughout the 
city. 

Thos. a. Doyle, 

Mayor. 



« GRANT MEMORIAL, 

Providence, Jiily 27tli, 1885. 

The General Roiniion Committee of the Veteran org-aiiiza- 
tions met at the office of the President, C. C. Gray, 62 Wey- 
bosset St., on Monday, 'Tuly 27th, 1885, to take action on the 
death of Gen. U. S. Grant. 

The foHowing Veteran Reg-iraeuts were represented, viz. : 

1st R. I. D. M., Geo. E. Allen. 

2d R. I. Infantry, E. H. Rhodes. 

1st Lig-ht Artillery Regiment, C. C. Gray. 

1st Cavalry Reg-iment, Dr. A. C. Robbins. 

3d Heavy Artillery Regiment, C. H. Williams. 

4th Infantry Regiment, J. T. P. Bucklin. 

5th Infantry Regiment, L. L. Burton. 

7th Infantry Regiment, W. H. Joyce. 

9tli Infantry Regiment, J. T. Pitman. 

10th Infantry Regiment, W. T. Spicer. 

lltli Infantry Regiment, H. S. Olney. 

2d and 3d Cavalry Regiment, G. C. Pomroy. 

14th Heavy Artillery Regiment, D. S. Howard. 

U. S. Veteran Association, W. D. Mason. 

Voted, That tlie Veteran Eegimeiital Associations unite with the G. 
A. R. of this State in holding- a Memorial Service on the day of Gen. 
Grant's funeral, Aug. 8tli, 1885. 

Voted, That the President of the Reunion Committees appoint sueli 
committees as he may deem necessary to carry out the observance of 
the day, and to hire music and incur such other expenses as he may 
think best. 

Attest : 

"VVm. H. Joyce, 

/Secretd/y. 



QoiJ^eil Order. 



Providence, July 27th, 1885. 

In accordance with S. O. No. 34, C. S., the Council of iV.d- 
ministration met at 159 High St. and was called to order at 
12.30 p. ni. by Department Commander Cory who stated that 
the meeting- was called to consider the proper observance of 
the funeral of our late comrade Gen. U. S. Grant. 

Comrade Wm. F. Hutchinson briefly outlined a service 
consistino- of singing- and brief addresses by members of the 
G. A. R. only, and on his motion it was 

}^ofcd, That the Council constitute a committee to carry out such a 
program, and that Department Commander Cory be authorized to ap- 
point sxich sub-committees as may be needed. 

On motion it was 

Voted, That the Veteran Association be invited to participate with 
us in making and carrying out the arrangements, and that the Militia 
organizations and their Veteran Associations be invited to attend the 
Services. 

E. Henry Jenks, 

Iiecorder. 



D(?partm(^9t Ordqr. 



Headquarters 
Department of Khode Island, G. A. K. 

Providence, August 1, 1885. 
General Orders, No. 8. 

I. In accordance with directions of the Council of Admin- 
istration, given at a meeting held in this city July 27th, sol- 
emn services will be held in Music Hall, Providence, at 
eleven o'clock, A. M. on Saturday the 8th instant, in honor 
of our deceased comrade. General Ulysses S. Grant. The 
several Veteran Associations of the State will unite with us in 
paying the last tribute of love and respect to our heroic dead. 

II. Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic are re- 
quested to meet at ten o'clock, A. M., of that date, on South 
Water street, right resting on College street, wearing full 
Post uniform, with crape on left arm and sword hilts. The 
line will start at ten thirty o'clock, moving directly up West- 
minster street to Music Hall. 



By command of 

E. Henry Jenks, A. A. G. 



Eugene A. Cory, 
Department Coniniander. 



(5ou(^r9or's proelamatioi}. 



STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND. PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS. 



A Proclamation by His Excellency, George Peabody Wet- 
more, Governor. 

Whereas, Saturday the eighth day of August, A. D. 1885, 
has been appointed for the obsequies of Ulysses S. Grant, 
hite President of the United States and General of the Army : 
Now, therefore, as a further mark of respect to the mem- 
ory of the deceased, I, George Peabody Wetmore, Governor 
of the State, by virtue of the authority vested in me by law, 
do issue this, my proclamation, appointing the said Satur- 
day, August 8th, 1885, as a day of solemn fast, and I declare 
the same to be, by operation of the Statute, a legal holiday. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the State to be affixed at Provi- 
dence this fifth day of August, in the year of our 
[l. s.] Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, of 
the founding of the State the two hundred and fifti- 
eth, and of Independence the one hundred and tenth. 
George Peabody Wetmore. 

By the Governor, 

Joshua M. Addeman, 

Secretary of State. 



E\)(^ pdJ9(^ral Day. 



The City's Kecognition of the Grant Obsequies. — Yereran 
Memorial Service at Music Hall, and Suspension of 
Business. 



In compliance with the prochimations of His Excellency 
Governor Wetmore and His Honor Mayor Doyle, the State 
and city will observe to-day, Angust 8, as a day of solemn 
fast in recognition of the solemnization of the last sad rites 
to the memory of the nation's hero, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 
at the metropolis, where his remains are to be consigned to 
their last resting* place with impressive and imposing cere- 
mony. For several days past the public buildings and prom- 
inent business establishments have been draped with the 
habiliments of mourning, and business will be generally sus- 
pended during the day, so that the peaceful quiet of a Sab- 
bath day will reign throughout the State, broken by the sol- 
emn tolling of the bells and the reverberating thunder of the 
minute guns which will count the life of the distinguished 
dead by three score and three salutes in the capital cities of 
the State, fired by veteran artillery organizations. The na- 
tional colors will be displayed at half-mast from sunrise to 
sunset in mute recognition of his gallant services on the field 
of battle for his country's safety and honor, and at sunset a 
national salute of thirty-eight guns will signify the departure 
of one of the saddest days in American history. 

The Grand Army and Veteran Associations throughout 
the State will hold memorial services, and at Music Hall there 
is to be a veterans' memorial observance with music and ad- 
dresses bj^ distinguished gentlemen at 11 o'clock. There will 
be a grand parade of War Veterans at 10 o'clock, the column 



THE FUNERAL DAY. 13 

being- formed ou Exchang-e Place, and the ronte will lay 
direct to Mnsic Hall, the body of the house being- reserved 
for the Veterans, while the galleries and unoccupied floor 
space will be open to the public. The hall is to be elabo- 
rately decorated, and the order of exercises of an interesting- 
and impressive character. After the organizations are seated, 
the doors will be thrown open to the public, the invited 
g-uests being- requested to report to Gen. Charles E. Brayton 
at 10.30 o'clock, for assignment to seats in the reserved sec- 
tions on either side of the platform. 

The addresses are hmited to ten minutes each, and the 
singing by the choir of the Union Congregational Church 
will undoubtedly be a pleasing feature of the service. The 
absence of Chaplain Woodbury is a source of deep disappoint- 
ment, but a worth}^ successor has been chosen, and Senator 
Aldrich has kindly consented to make one of the addresses. 
It is thought that there will be ample accommodations for 
the public in the hall, as the observances in other parts of 
the State will naturally draw largely upon the ranks of the 
Department and Veteran Associations. — Providence Journal. 



5l?e 6\)0uq^\: of tl?e j^oijr. 

The ex-Confederate soldiers have appointed a hirge and 
influential committee to represent them at the obsequies of 
General Grant. They have draped in mourning the house 
in which Generals Grant and Lee signed the terms of siTr- 
render. In all this broad land there will be to-day exhibited 
the outward tokens of grief, as there will be felt the deepest 
sorrow for the death of the invincible leader of the army of 
the Union. Business will be suspended. The mourners will 
go about the streets and congregate to condole with each 
other, and draw new inspiration of public spirit from the con- 
templation of the life of the silent, the brave, the self-poised, 
the trustworthy man, who, by his energy, ability and integ- 
rity, placed himself on the roll of fame in conjunction with 
Washington and Lincoln. 

The most conspicuous spectacle, that in the city of New 
York, to participate in which hundreds of thousands of per- 
sons have left their business and their homes, will only feebly 
illustrate the sentiment of the millions who, in village or in 
the country, will be thinking of all that has been escaped; 
all that is promised in the future ; and of him who under God 
saved and gave us so much ; for so far as the human mind 
can judge, from the facts patent to all. Grant did what he 
did, not for personal fame, not for high position, but for the 
good of his country. He did not seek the Presidency ; he 
did not seek a renomination in 1876 when urged upon him 
strenuously by the Republican party. He was simple in his 
habits as a soldier; he was honest in his convictions as Presi- 
dent. 

There will be a more silent, yet a more intensified respect 
for the man, and love for all that he personified in our theory 



THE THOUGHT OF THE HOUR. 15 

of obligation to duty, private and public. He will be remem- 
bered not as one "upon whom shone each star of heaven, 
exce])t the g-uiding- one," but as one who was controlled by 
the bright light of truth and honor ; and whose influence is 
and will be felt for good "to the last syllable of recorded 
time." In turning away fi'om his tomb the people will turn 
to their usual vocations with minds strengthened, with hearts 
purified and with something of that devotion to the right, 
which was the one characteristic of Grant which will give 
him an immortality of influence in the memory of America. 
— Providence Journal. 



J\)e Day of /Tloijr9i9^. 

Kecognition of the Funeral Hour in This City.— Veterans' 
Memorial Service to the Old Commander.— Eloquent 
Eulogies by Prominent Civilians and Soldiers, 



To-day a nation is paying the last tribute of love and 
lionoi- to its hero. While the funeral car that bears the life- 
less clay of Gen. Grant moves slowly through the streets of 
the metropolis ; while thousands and thousands are looking 
silently on that black draped equipage, and muffled drums are 
beating the funeral step for the long and reverent cortege ; 
the eyes of the nation follow the course of that car with 
its honored dead, and other thousands in every city, town 
and village in this great land hold solemn service in mem- 
ory of him, whom in life they loved to honor, and in death 
may well love ; so performing the one sad duty which the hour 
affectionately demands. The leader alike of citizen and sol- 
dier, a nation (America) mourns. 

In this city the formal observance of the obsecpries was 
both civic and mihtary ; as spontaneous as it was general. 
And while the day and hour were named when the people of 
Providence, together with the people of the nation, should 
give formal expression to that grief which was theirs, in com- 
mon with the nation, under the loss which had fallen upon it, 
no proclamation of Governor or Mayor, no closing of the 
stores and suspension of the daily routine of business, not 
even the sombre drapings, the solemn procession, the dirge 
and formal services could be any more than forms by which 
a loving people may pay a tribute of respect and love rather 
than fully express the feehngs which lie beneath all form 
and pomp and ceremony. The preparations for the day and 
hour were made quickly and with a spirit of harmony and 
unanimity that showed the feeling that imbued all whose 
province it was to formally recognize the occasion. To the 
Grand Army of the Kepublic and the Veteran Associations of 



THE DAY OF MOUllNING. 17 

this State, tliere was but tlie one sad fact promineut, that 
their great commander was dead and that action of the ^-aud 
body, as a unit, was required to give a last formal expression 
of honor and affection if not, in full, of the feelings that 
welled in every soldier's heart. The sad duty once presented, 
action followed that was at once soldierly and wisely arranged 
and pursued. On Monday, the 27th ultimo, the Council of 
Administration, called together by Department Commander 
Cory, met and arranged immediately a programme of ser- 
vices, simple enough in its form, no less fitting to this occasion, 
unlike any they had ever been called upon to act on. That 
evening, pursuant to the invitation of Capt. Charles C. Gray, 
the veteran association acted and united with the Grand 
Army to further the one object of the soldiers. The details 
of the programme were as quickly decided upon, and by the 
beginning of the week the great organizations of soldiers had 
everything arranged in unison for the observance of the hour. 
The several regimental associations at their annual meetings 
or excursions took advantage of the occasion to pass resolu- 
tions expressive of their feelings and of condolence for those 
who perhaps felt a loss keener than their own. Sloeum Post, 
at a meeting on the evening of Wednesday, the 29th, hstened 
to informal addresses befitting the hour, and passed resolu- 
tions of condolences; and on Sunday evening under the 
auspices of this post St. Stephen's church was filled to listen 
to the impressive memorial service— a fit introduction to the 
memorial week. 

The dawn of morning gave .promise of a glorious day. 
The sky was clear and although the sun shone with hardly a 
cloud to screen it, its warm rays were tempered by the cool 
southern breeze, and a more beautiful morning for the sol- 
emn exercises could not have been hoped for. The civic 
demonstration Avas expressed in the general suspension of 
business throughout the city. The fronts of hundreds of 
buildings were hung with sombre dra]iings, while in the win- 
dows, variously draped, were prominent pictures of the dead 
chieftain, and trimmings reverential and suggestive. The 
fiags at the city stafis waved at half-mast, as did the flags and 
banners flying all over the c\ij .—Fivvidence Journal. 

3 



6\)<^ parad(^. 

The line was formed iu two divisions, tlie tirst composed of 
the posts of the Grand Army, formed on South Water street, 
right resting on Market square; the second, the Yeteran 
Associations, on Exchange Place, right resting on Washing-- 
ton Kow. The Grand Army moved at 10:30 o'clock, turning- 
into Market square and Westminster street, and the Veteran 
Associations wheeled into the square from Canal street and 
took position on the left of the line. The route of march lay 
directly up Westminster street to Music Hall, and the line 
was made up as follows : 

Platoon of Police, Sergeant Kankin. 
White's Military Band, Theodore Allen, leader ; 16 pieces. 
Department Commander Engene A. Cory, Assistant Adjutant General 
E. Henry Jenks and staff. 

GRAND AKMY OF THE EEPUBIilC. 

Prescott Post, No. 1, Commander George H. Chenery, Adjutant Wil- 
liam H. Chenery and staff ; 138 comrades. 

First Company, Comrade Geo. W. Barry in command. 
Second Company, Comrade Orrin Wilson in command. 

Third Company, Comrade Alliert H. Delnah. 
Fourth Company, Comrade Henry Howe in command. 
Fifth Company, Comrade Joseph D. Brooks in command. 
Sixth Company, Sergt. -Major Joseph G. Skinner in command. 
Slocum Post, No. 10, Adjutant George Edward Allen, Acting Com- 
mander ; George M. Turner, Acting Adjutant, and staff; 110 com- 
rades. 
First Company, Acting Senior Vice Commander H. C. Li;ther in com- 
mand. 

Second Companj^, Comrade John A. Vaughn in command. 
Third Company, Comrade John W. Gale in command. ♦ 
Fourtli Company, Acting Junior Vice Commander S. A Barker in com- 
mand. 

Arnold Post Drum Corps, Frank Brown, leader, 9 pieces. 



THE PAP.ADE. 19 

Aniokl Post, No. 4, eommauder Geo. W. Blair, Adjutant B. Matthew 

Sullivan, and staflt", 50 comrades. 
1st Company, Senior Vice Commander, Joliu T. Drinan in command. 

3d Company, Junior Vice Commander A. B. Pressy in command. 
Kodman Post, No. 12, Commander Tlieodore Andrews, Adjutant Frank 

A. Cliase, 20 comrades. 
Ives Post, No. 13, Commander John H. Frances, Adjutant J. Henry 

Sharp, 23 comrades. 

VETERAN ASSOCIATIONS. 

Charles C. Gray in command, Henry S. Oluey, Adjutant, and staff. 

First Regiment, E. I. V , Charles H. Merriman, President ; J. Harry 
Welch, Active Vice President, 40 comrades. 

Second Regiment, R. I. V., Capt. W. B. Sears, President ; Maj. W. J. 
Bradford, Acting Adjutant, 100 comrades. 

First Rhode Island Cavalry, W. P. Lovett, Vice President ; 24 com- 
rades. 

First Rhode Island Light Artillery, N. W. Potter, First Vice President, 
30 comrades. 

Second and Third Rhode Island Cavalry, Captain Peter Brucker, 45 
comrades. 

Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Captain John E. Burroughs, 
President ; General Horatio Rogers, Vice President, 53 comrades. 

Fourth Regiment, R. I. V., D. F. Longstreet, President, 20 comrades. 
Fifth Regiment, R. I. V., Mark Handy, President, 53 comrades. 

Seventh Regiment, R. I. V., Major W. H. Joyce, President; Major 
Ethan A. Jenks, Vice President, 50 comrades. 

Ninth Regiment, R. I. V., J. Talbot Pitman, President, 40 comrades. 

Eleventh Regiment, R. I. V., R. B. Little, President: Joseph E. 
Handy, Vice President, 75 comrades. 

Twelfth Regiment, R. I. V., Captain C. Henry Alexander, Command- 
ing, 40 comrades. 

United States Veteran Association, William Avery, President, 50 com- 
rades. 



Ordi^r of S(^ru'K(^5. 



Under the Auspices of the Depaetjient of Ehode Island, G. A. 
R. AND Veteran Associations of Rhode Island. 

Organ, "Marche Funebre," Beetlioveii. 

Anthem, "Sleep TI13- Last Sleep," Barnby. 

Pra3'er Chaplain S. W. Field. 

Response, "Thy Will Be Done." 

Address . . Gen. Hoeatio Rogees 

Hymn, "He Giveth His Beloved Sleep," Abt. 

Address Prof. Alonzo Williams. 

Army Melody, "The Vacant Chair," Root. 

Address Prof. E. Benjamin Andeews. 

Hj-mn, "The Lord is nxy Shei)lierd," Koschat. 

Address Dr. W. F. Hutchinson. 

Invocation, "Sleep, Comrade, Sleep," Dwyer 

Address Senator N. W. Aldeich. 

Hj^mn, "Farewell, Father, Friend and Guardian,". ....... Root. 

National Hymn, "America." The andience -nill join, standing.- 

Closing Praj-er and Benediction, .... Chaplain Feedeeic Denison. 

The music was under cliarg'e of Mr. Charles L. Kenyou, 
organist, the choir consisting- of Mrs. Hattie Gates McKown, 
soprano; Mrs. Cora Bishop Stone, contralto; ]Mr. Thomas 
E. Johnson, tenor; Mr John Deas, bass. 

Invitation Committee.— Eugene A. Cory, Department Commander ; 
Chas. C. Gray, Chairman General Committee Veteran Associations. 

Reception Committee.— Gen. Chas. R. Brayton, 3d R. I. H. A.; 
Hon. Nelson W. Aldrich, 10th R. I. Vols. ; Hon. Henry J. Spooner, 4th 
R. I. Vols. Col. Henry R. Barker, 10th R. I. Vols. ; Capt. Wm. W. 
Donglas, 5th R. L Vols.; Col. Chas. H. Williams, 3d R. I. H. A.; Col. 
Philip S. Chase, 1st R. L Lt. Art.; Gen. E. H. Rhodes, 2d R. L Vols.; 
Dr. A. O. Robbins, 1st R. I. Cav.; Capt. Albert C. Howard, llth R. I. 
Vols.; Col. John M. Stndley, U. S. Vet. Assocn.; Hon. Joshua M. 
Addeman, 14th R. I. H. A.; Gen. Chas. R. Dennis, 1st E. I. D. M.; 



ORDER OF SERVICES, 21 

Col. Oscar Lapliam, 12tli E. I. Vols. ; D. F. Lougstreet, 4tli K. I. Vols. ; 
Dr. Jolin C. Budlong, Med. Director.; Gen. Elislia Dyer, Jr.; Col. 
James Moran, 5tli E. I. Vols. 

Finance Committee.— Hemy S. Oluej-, llth E. I. Vols.; Job Eey- 
nolds, 4tli E. I. Vols. ; Isaac M. Potter, 5tli E. I. Vols. ; Geo. A. Car- 
micliael, Jr., 9tli E. I. Vols ; Francis B. Butts, U. S. Navy. 

Committee on Music, Speakers and Pkogeamme. — Wm. F. Hntcli- 
inson, Asst. Q. M. Gen. ; E. Henry Jenks, Asst. Adjt. Gen. ; E. C. 
Pomroy, 2d and 3d E. I. Cav.; Geo. H. Eemingtou, lltli E. I. Vols.; 
C. Henry Alexander, 12th E. I. Vols.; Benj. L. Hall, 5th E. I. Vols. 

Committee on Hall Decoeations.— Theodore A. Bai-ton, S. V. 
Dept. Coni'dr. ; Peleg Macomber, C. of A. ; George Dixon. ; Edwin A. 
Calder, 1st E. I. D. M.; Geo. Edward Allen, 1st E. I. D. M.: Wm. D. 
Mason, U. S. Vet. Assocn. ; Geo. A. Wallace, U. S. Vet. Assocn. 

Committee on Salute and Bell Einging. — William H. Joyce, 7th 
E. I. Vols. ; Wm. J. Bradford, 2d E. I. Vols. : Benoni Lewis, 5th E. I. 
Vols ; J. Talbot Pitman, 9th E. I. Vols ; Benjamin H. Child, 1st E. I. 
Lt. Art. 



Jl^e (T^emorial Seruice. 



The Grand Army and Veteran Associations' Observance at 

Music Hall. 

The sad autl solemn procession readied Music Hall abont 
10:45 o'clock, and to the measured strains of a funeral march 
the comrades entered the hall and stood uncovered in the 
body of the auditorium until at a signal from Department 
Commander Cory they were seated. The galleries had been 
thrown open for the entrance of the ladies, and they were 
well filled on the entrance of the veterans. The hall was 
draped with pleasing simplicity and tastefulness by Senior 
Yice Department Commander T. A. Barton, Adjutant George 
Edward Allen and Comrade George A. Wallace, of the Coun- 
cil of Administration. Resting against the organ fi'ont was 
a large portrait of the dead hero, with a black background, 
a wreath of myrtle resting upon the top of the frame, and it 
was flanked with the national colors, which also rested 
against the organ. The pillars in the upper gallery were fes- 
tooned with drai^ery, and a broad band of black cambric 
concealed the gallery fronts the entire circuit of the hall. 
The G. A. R. and National colors were clustered at either 
extremity of the platform. The guests occupied seats upon 
the platform and reserved sections in the right and left wings 
of the gallery, and comprised a distinguished gathering of 
citizens from all parts of the State. Prominent among them 
were Congressmen Aldrich, Pirce and Spooner, ex-Gov. Lit- 
tlefield, Lieut. Gov. Darling, Mayor Doyle, ex-Mayors Bar- 
stow and Hayward, members of tRe Board of Aldermen and 
Connuon Council, Justices of the Supreme Court, Faculty of 
Brown University, officers of the First, Second, Fourth and 



ADDRESS OF GEN. HORATIO ROGERS. 23 

Fifth Battalions of Infantry, First Battalion of Cavalry, Bat- 
tery A, Lig-lit ArtillerjT^, and the United Train of Artillcr}^ 
the clergy of the city, officers of the Department G. A. R. 
and army veteran organizations and others. 

The exercises commenced at 11 o'clock, with an organ vol- 
untary, "Marche Fimebre," Beethoven, played with delicacy 
and depth of expression by Mr. Charles L. Kenyou, organist 
of the Union Congregational Chnrch. The booming of the 
minute guns outside and the solemn tolling of the bells lent 
a touching accompaniment to the subdued strains of the 
entertainment, and the anthem, " Sleep Thy Last Sleejj," 
Barnby, rendered by the choir of the Union Congregational 
Church, Mrs. Hattie Gates Mckown, soprano ; Mrs. Cora 
Bishop Stone, contralto ; Mr. Thomas E. Johnson, tenor ; 
and Mr. John Deas, bass, formed a tender and impressive 
supplement to the instrumental selection. A fervent prayer 
was then offered by Chaplain S. W. Field, and the choir sang 
a responsive hymn " Thy Will be Done," ^-itli tender intona- 
tion. 

The opening address was then delivered by Gen. Horatio 
Rogers, who discussed Grant as a soldier in an eloquent and 
forcible manner in comparison with Napoleon and Welling- 
ton, his glowing eulogy meeting with appreciative applause, 
notwithstanding the solemnity of the occasion. He spoke as 
follows : 

ADDRESS BY GEN. HORATIO ROGERS. 

GRANT, THE SOLDIER. 

Great crises develop great men. Happil}^ for 
America the chief conflicts in her history developed 
Washington and Grant, the Father and the Saviour 
of their country. In the brief period allotted me I 
shall confine my remarks to Grant the soldier. 

Great Generals are born, not made. The germ of 
the truly great commander is planted by his Creator 
at his birth, which only a great exigency can bring 
to maturity. Early training and experience can 



24 GRANT MEMOltLy:-. 

assist tlie development, but they can do no more, 
for the God-given quality is no mere artificial pro- 
duction. So it was with Grant. From his first 
active service in the late civil war it was apparent 
that he was the right man in the right place, and as 
his place kept enlarging he continued to be the right 
man, appalled at no responsibilities, overcoming all 
obstacles, triumphing w^here others had failed. As 
lona- as an enemy remained in arms he was as untir- 
ing in his blows as the waves of the ocean beating 
on a ship doomed to destruction. In the spring of 
1864, when it seemed as if he would drown the re- 
bellion in human blood, his casualties in less than 
sixty days reaching 70,000 men, he appeared as in- 
exorable as fate. At Donelson, at Shiloh, at Vicks- 
burg, in his Mrginia campaign, no temporary reverse 
could swerve him from his purpose, and he moved 
right on to ultimate success apparently as irresistible 
as destiny. When the armed foe yielded, this stern 
embodiment of war was instantly metamorphosed 
into the gentlest representative of peace, and he who 
but a moment before had overcome the arms of his 
enemies bade fair to overcome their hearts also. He 
would receive Lee's hand but not his sword ; he veri- 
tably turned the swords of the captured Confeder- 
ates into ploughshares and their spears into pruning- 
hooks, by bidding them take their horses home with 
them foi' the next spring's ploughing; and he rescued 
his paroled prisoners from the vengeance of a Presi- 
dent whom he defied. The little man shrinks from 
responsibility alike in war and in peace, but the great 
man grasps it as a natural heritage. Surely he who 



ADDllESS OF GEN. HOllATIO ROGERS. 25 

took tlie responsibilities Grant assumed, and achieved 
his results, must be both a great General and a great 
man. 

Some strive to measure Grant by comparing him 
with other great commanders, as if there was a com- 
mon standard, an universal law. Surrounding cir- 
cumstances are so different that standards of com- 
parison must necessarily be unequal. There is no 
I'ule by which to gauge greatness, the great General 
being a rule unto himself. This applies likewise to 
rules relating to the military art. The great leader 
will not be cramped by existing rules. He will make 
exceptions for himself. This, Grant did at Vicks- 
burg and in A'irginia. How then can you compare 
great Generals? Take Wellington and Grant. Con- 
spicuous as were the deeds of the Iron Duke, duty 
did not compel him to direct the movements of vast 
armies more than a thousand miles apart, as Grant 
did when Lieutenant General; neither was he called 
on to guide the arms of a nation contending with 
itself. Take Grant and Napoleon Bonaparte. The 
former, unlike the latter, never wantonly led his 
countrymen against foreign neighbors, and he was 
famous only for his victories, as he made no retreat 
from Moscow, and was overwhelmed at no Waterloo. 
Judged by results, did either accomplish more than 
Grant? Napoleon not only lost an empire, but his 
own life-long liberty. Wellington secured Great 
Britain from a possible foreign invasion, and pre- 
vented some of the kingdoms of Europe from being 
shorn of a part of their power. Grant saved his 
country from sure disintegration and decay, and 



26 GRANT MEMORIAL. 

thus perpetuated in the eyes of the world the hope- 
ful example of a republic of freemen developing into 
one of the most powerful and prosperous nations of 
the age. 

There is one criticism upon Clrant that is some- 
times made, worthy of special consideration. It has 
been said of his Virginia campaign that he was too 
extravagant in the use of his human resources, too 
unmindful of the lives of his men, too regardless of 
the slaughter of his soldiers. This would seem to be 
a narrow and short sighted view. Grant reminds 
one of a bold and skillful surgeon. Some operators 
would cut too superficially, and thus not eradicating 
the evil, would be obliged to cut again and again, 
only prolonging the agony, increasing the aggregate 
flow of blood, and by frittering away the strength of 
the patient utterly fail of saving life. The bold and 
skillful surgeon, however, -would cut deeply and 
adequately, undismayed by the flow of blood that 
the occasion demanded, and by one operation would 
succeed in effecting a cure. 

The best commentary upon Grant, the soldier, is 
a Horded by the Army of the Potomac, after he 
practically assumed its command. Prior to the 
spring of 1864 it was a common remark in that or- 
ganization that the Army of the Potomac always 
doubled on its steps, always revisited a place it once 
had occupied, always fought its battles twice ; that 
when it advanced and fought it was sure to fall back, 
and thus its reverses were disastrous; that when it 
fell back and fought it never promptly advanced, 
and hence its victories were inconclusive. There 



ADDRESS OF GEN. HORATIO ROGERS. 27 

was a first battle of Bull Run and a second battle of 
Bull Run ; there was a first battle of Fredericksburg 
and a second battle of Fredericksburg ; Chancellors- 
ville and Mine Run were both in the Wilderness 
near together ; and Gettysburg was but an empha- 
sized Antietam, and though across the borders of ad- 
joining States, were not so far apart but that the}- 
required marching over much of the same territory. 
After Grant had had command of the Army of the 
Potomac for a brief period that style of remark died 
out ; for, notwithstanding the frightful losses in the 
Wilderness, at Spottsylvania and elsewhere, it never 
again retreated, but always advanced. The average 
soldier measured the result of his fighting by the test 
of retreat or advance. If he fought and retreated he 
inferred that defeat caused it ; if he fought and ad- 
vanced he reasoned that only success could have per- 
mitted it. So when Grant constantly fought and 
advanced, and never retreated, the Army of the Po- 
tomac regarded itself as well-nigh invincible, for it 
had caught the spirit of its great commander, who 
proposed to "fight it out on this line if it takes all 
summer;" who would "accept no terms except im- 
mediate and unconditional surrender," and who 
"proposed to move immediately upon the enemy's 
works." 

To-day the remains of our great commander pass 
from our earthly vision. While millions of heads 
are bowed in sadness and foreign nations look on in 
sympathy, his body is borne to the tomb with equal 
affection by the chief surviving military representa- 
tives of the cause he championed and the cause he 



28 GRANT MEMORIAL. 

crushed ; and his country witli enduring gratitude 
will inscribe his name with those of Washington and 
Lincoln on her histor}^ in perennial characters and 
imperishable fame. 

The beantihil hymn, "He giveth His beloved sleep," Abt, 
was then suu,o- liy the choir, and Prof. Alonzo Williams of 
Brown T^niversity delivered a scholarly and gracefnl tiibnte 
to the life and character of the nation's hero, which com- 
manded rapt attention. He spoke as follows : 

ADDRESS BY PROF. ALONZO WILLIAMS. 

GKANT piVINELY COMMISSIONED. 

Comrades: Our Commander is dead. We sit un- 
der the shadow of a great sorrow that spreads its 
dark wings over the land. We gather to gaze once 
more with moistened eye and loving heart upon 
that stern yet benignant face. As we reflect upon 
the wonderful achievements of that noble life, the 
fullness of its rounded mission dawns upon us now 
as never before. The military career of our Captain 
was so marvellous, men could not grasp its grand 
proportions. His greatness was so giant-like, so 
rare, and clothed withal in such modest garb, men 
questioned once if he was great. When gazing 
on Mont Blanc, that king of mountains, leagues 
are requisite to gain the proper perspective. Full 
twenty 3'ears has it required of time to grasp the 
Titan outline of our hero, and only after the lapse 
of a century Avill men fully comprehend and appre- 
ciate the magnitude of his services. 

It is difficult to obtain a complete conception of 
tlie wliole man. So many-sided was he, and every 



ADDRESS BY PROF. ALONZO WILLIAMS. 29 

side so wondrous and attractive, our gaze is now 
arrested on the separate phases of his character. 
We extol his firmness, his magnanimity, his self 
abnegation. We Avonder at his calm self-poise, his 
courage, his silence. We admire his unaffected sim- 
plicity, his genuine honest}^, his domestic virtues. 
But all these combined did not make him great. 
They were but the outward evidences of his great- 
ness. 

May we not discover the deep underlNung source, 
the hidden determining impulse of those wondrous 
forces that achieved so much which holds captive 
now the admiration of the world. Seek to measure 
him by military standards, and one is puzzled at 
every step. Nor cio the common standards of life 
avail, for the elements of romance are mingled with 
the lordliest powers and sternest virtues. Study 
aright, however, the connected incidents of his whole 
life, and one is forced to the conviction that he was 
a man divinely commissioned, a man chosen and 
reared, like Washington, for the great work he ac- 
complished. His mission did not begin at Donel- 
son and end at Appomattox, but was entered upon 
in the preparation of his youth, and consummated 
on Mount McGregor. If we take this high view of 
the man, all the wonderful events of his varied and 
ever interesting career are no longer fortuitous, as 
often imagined, and all those matchless qualities of 
his mind, and those strongly contrasted elements of 
his character, spring necessarily from a nature which 
is not complex nor m^^sterious, but simple rather in 
its texture. 



30 GRANT MEMORIAL. 

Not the least interesting and instructive period of 
his life ended with his thirty-ninth year. Observe 
the providential way he was led to secure his mili- 
tary education. Follow his brilliant career in Mex- 
ico. Then mark his withdrawal from among men 
to live in obscurity "far from the madding crowd's 
ignoble strife," apart from the petty competitions 
and narrowing conventionalities of life where men's 
powers are wasted, that he might know the labor 
and sorrow of the common people, might ripen in 
want's inurement, and thus grow strong within 
himself for his great mission. How long and pa- 
tiently he waited for the sunmions that was to place 
him in four short years among the foremost men on 
earth. There is something grand and solemn, some- 
thing inspiring in the contemplation of this period. 
We can almost hear the voice of Providence an- 
nouncing, as in the stately lines of Milton, its high 
purpose : 

"To exercise him in tlie wilderness; 
There he shall lay down the rudiments 
Of his great warfare, ere I send him forth 
To conquer." 

To one who will follow from point to point the 
gradual unfolding of his genius from the moment 
when he was called from obscurity to the hour when 
he commanded an army vaster than was ever com- 
manded before by man, there will be disclosed such 
evidences of an inspired mission as are seldom wit- 
nessed. They are seen first in his unswerving loyalty, 
his deep sense of obligation to his country, and a 
fixed determination to serve her, though the tender 
of his services pass unnoticed, and even if the cai)tain 



ADDEESS BY TEOF. ALONZO AVILLIAMS. 31 

from the regular army must begin as a private of 
volunteers. He did not wait to study the issues. 
The inevitable results burst as in prophetic vision 
upon his mind, his native instincts told him the 
time had come to act. It was an inspiration from 
Heaven. And it is his glory now and his country's 
fortune that he yielded to the plastic hand divine 
and followed without halting the guiding spirit. 

Soon he began to rise. Then we see the display 
of that great patience, a virtue in him so sure, so 
deep, that it never forsook him, even in his last 
great struggle. At first, in the army he was dis- 
trusted, then envied and maligned, then humiliated 
by so-called superiors, ignored, disgraced. A soul 
swayed by native impulses alone would have re- 
signed itself to a seemingly implacable destiny, but 
he, continuing ever unmoved in the unruffled depths 
of his own great self, marches straight on in the line 
of duty and slowly but surely rises by the upward 
gravitation of his divinely implanted powers, until 
finally at Vicksburg there bursts forth in all its me- 
ridian splendor that military genius which startled 
the world, a genius that never was so great, so uner- 
ring as when to common sight the situation was 
hopeless. Thus with matchless patience his way he 
wins — 

' ' And breasts tlie blows of circumstance, 

And grapples with his evil star." 

" x\nd moving up from bigli to liigher, 

Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope 

The pillar of a people's hope, 
The centre of a world's desire." 

The most prominent characteristics which reveal 



82 GKANT MEMOKIAL. 

the inspiration of his mission are liis singleness of 
purpose, liis unwavering faith, and the clearness of 
his mental vision. A single eye upon a single end, 
an unfaltering faith in its accomplishment, a clear- 
ness of vision that enabled him to see all the ele- 
ments of the problem before him in their true func- 
tions and relations, and to proceed to its solution 
with all the assurance and accuracy of the mathe- 
matician, these in him, as ever, are the evidences of 
insj)i ration and sureties of success. ^'The chief char- 
acteristic," writes Sherman to him, " is the simple 
faith in success you have always manifested, which 
I can liken to nothing else than the faith a Christian 
has in his Saviour. This faith gave a^ou victory at 
Shiloh and Vicksburg. Also when you have com- 
l)leted your best preparations, 3'ou go into battle 
without hesitation, as at Chattanooga, no doubts, no 
reserves ; and I tell you it was this that made us act 
with confidence." Was he calm and unmoved when 
overwhelming disaster confronted him? It was his 
faith. His calmness was the repose of conscious 
l)0wer. The battle had been already fought within 
and won upon the broad untroubled field of his 
capacious mind. These three powers, like his three 
great armies in the field, he brings to bear in con- 
verging lines upon the task before him, the suppres- 
sion of " armed rebellion." He knows nothing else, 
cares for nothing else. Self, even, is lost, absorbed 
in his mission. This alone is his duty, his life, his 
religion. To this he bends all the energies of his 
mighty soul, with a power that grasps the tremen- 
dous situation in all its magnitude ; with an insight 



ADDRESS BY TROF. ALONZO WILLIAMS. 33 

that apprehends the minutest details ; with a forti- 
tude that endures unmoved its awful disasters ; with 
a faith that looks only forward amid the bewildering 
scenes, unshaken, undisturbed ; with a determina- 
tion as fixed as the perpetual hills, and with a pur- 
suit as unceasing as the force of gravitation, and as 
relentless, grinding all before it, if need be, to dust. 
And yet the moment this mission is accomplished, 
he exhibits a heart as tender as a woman's and a 
magnanimity for the parallel of which we search 
the pages"of history in vain. Where the vindictive- 
ness that marches in the train of the conqueror? 
Where the pride that perches on his brow ? Whence 
this divine insight that shows him how to conquer 
the hearts of his foe and win us back our brothers? 

The last act in his great mission has just closed. 
In the full light of its vast beneficial influences, 
who can doubt that it, too, was by the dispensation 
of Providence? Who shall say it was not the 
grandest act of all ? 

These scenes of suffering alone were wanting to 
touch all hearts and fuse them into unity. The 
South vies to-day with the North in expressions of 
love and admiration and in its loyal eagerness to 
accept the results of his mission. His bier is mois- 
tened by the tears of an undivided Union ; his tomb 
is garlanded by the love of a reunited people. Thus 
grandly does the unity of a common country rise 
anew from the grave of him who led the Union 
armies at Appomattox. 

The epic of a divinely-commissioned life, how fit- 
tingly ended ! Poetry itself or song ne'er closed a 



34 GRANT MEMORIAI.. 

carcor of earthly greatness by a more iilorious con- 
summation. As we gather about his sepulchre with 
those who fought so valiantly against us, may we 
recall the mission of his life and with one heart and 
one voice repeat his own undying words — 

" Let us have ■peace.'" 

The army melody, " The Vacant Chair," Root, was then 
exqnisitely rendered by tlie choir, Mrs. McKown and Mr. 
Johnson sustaining- the solos, the audience sitting in hushed 
silence during the singing of the favorite selection. Prof. E. 
Benjamin Andrews, of Brown University, then addressed his 
fellow-comrades in words of thoughtful and expressive eulogy 
of the distinguishing traits of character of the noble dead, 
speaking as follows : 

ADDRESS BY PROF. E. BENJ. ANDREWS. 

THE MAGNANIMITY OF GBANT. 

Comrades and Fellow Citizens: We particij)ate to- 
day in literally the most remarkable funeral ever 
celebrated on earth. It is national; it is interna- 
tional ; it is every way unique. 

The Athenians had a custom of honoring their 
soldiers slain upon the battlefield w^th a public 
burial. The rite was touching and beautiful. But 
never, in that sweetest suburb of the ancient city, 
dedicated as the last resting place of Attic braves, 
where they laid out the sacred bones in cypress 
coffins, and where some silver tongue extolled the 
valor of the deed, while their wives, mothers, and 
sisters wailed the dirge, never did patriotic Athens 
see obsequies like these. 

Yet the mourning and the pageant of this day are 



ADDRESS BY PKOF. E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS. 35 

none too massive for the subject of them. You have 
heard praises for his worth in various particuhirs; 
I will mention his preeminence in another. 

General Grant had in him one of the grandest 
souls that ever alighted on our orb. This was mani- 
fest first, in that, though soldier, and at last the most 
exalted of soldiers, he still retained, from the begin- 
ning to the end of his career, the temper and charac- 
ter of a man. He did not sink the man in the mili- 
tary man. He had all a soldier's virtues, like the 
peerless Bayard of history and romance, the "cheva- 
lier without fear and without reproach," but he was 
glorified by a whole galaxy of excellencies which 
soldiers too often lack. He was pure of speech and 
of habit, never profane, never so much as irreverent. 
His family he idolized, and even in active service 
would have them near him if he could. Lofty com- 
mand did not make him vain. For gorgeous uni- 
forms and reviews he cared nothing. When he came 
to Washington to be made supreme, and registered 
at Willard's, no star distinguished him, and his dusty 
blouse and slouch hat, with his total freedom from 
parade, made all the bystanders doubt whether this 
could really be the man of continental fame, the "U. 
S. Grant" he signed himself. No inferior officer, no 
private in the ranks, ever heard from him a haughty 
word. If, for temporary purposes, they were subject 
to his commands, he did not forget that as men and 
citizens they were as high and good as he. You 
have known officers, not of the topmost grades, whose 
memory failed them here. 

Closely akin to this was General Grant's inflexible 



36 GRANT MEMORIAL. 

civic spirit. He was a citizen-soldier, a patriot in 
arms for his country, and this is saying much. But 
lie was a citizen and patriot of an extraordinary 
t3''pe. He loved his country, not blindly, as merely 
the land where Providence has pleased to cast his 
lot, but intelligently, as a republican land, governed 
by and for the people. 

Pericles, pronouncing his masterly oration over 
the dead in the first year of the Peloponnesian war, 
begins with a survey of those free institutions where- 
of Athens was so justly proud, as if accounting thrice 
meritorious heroes who had braved death out of love 
to such a State. 

The same consummate merit belongs to this, our 
modern Republican, this greater Cincinnatus. How 
sturdy, of what tough fiber, his democratic convic- 
tion ! It clung to him, and characterized his every 
acf, from Belmont to Appomattox. Mightier than 
a dictator, commanding the most gigantic army ever 
mustered under a single general in civilized warfare, 
he remained to the end, in spirit, a genuine tribune 
of the people. 

And when he traveled abroad, the central figure 
in the world's eye, honored as no other man in all 
history has been, triumphing as never Roman con- 
sul or Caesar did, seeing ''the long, victorious pomp 
wind down the sacred way," with honor that would 
have dazed Alexander and made him think himself 
in a dream, our leather seller of Galena was not 
puffed up, but grew the while to love better than be- 
fore the land he had fought for, and to prize simple 
citizenship there as outweighing in value all the 



ADDKESS BY PROF. E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS. 37 

other fortunes that earth could pile. In tliis Grant 
has absolutely no historic parallel save Washington, 
and in some respects even the Father of his Country 
is at this point not his peer. 

Greatness of soul appears, again, in Grant's power 
to rise superior to detraction and abuse. You know 
how he was first neglected and ignored, then un- 
justly criticised, misrepresented, slandered, super- 
seded. He had to run, I think, a hotter gauntlet of 
this sort than any other General in the war. For 
long, everything was against him. All seemed to 
have forgotten his perfectly splendid record in 
Mexico, and he had no friends in high places. Be- 
sides, he was so silent, modest, unobtrusive; attentive 
to duty, he sounded his own praises so little, officers 
of a different stripe thought him stupid. He began 
to succeed, but he got him foes rather than friends. 
After his brilliant stroke at Donelson, partly envy, 
partly stolid inability to recognize fine qualities, led 
men to say: "O, it is all luck. Any simpleton may 
blunder into one or two successes. Wait till he has 
to face Albert Sidney Johnston. Why, Grant is no 
scholar ; he knows nothing of military science ; he 
has not read Schalk or Jomini. He stood very low 
in his class at West Point. Go to, he can be no 
genius, this Grant." Even late in 1864, when he 
had pounded the rickety shell of the confederacy till 
the deafest ears could detect its hollowncss and its 
cracking, people went on calling him butcher and 
learnedly expounding his lack of science. 

And, will you believe the miracle, despite all this, 
he did not sulk, or scold, or grow sour, or resign ; 



38 GEANT MEMORIAL. 

nor, having risen to the pinnacle of power, did he 
ever think of revenge. He had no time. The 
fatherhmd was in peril and right valiantly must he 
devote himself to its salvation. He felt the stings, 
of course, but made no sign. The bra^dng of little 
critics, the obloquy of men who should have been 
supporting him, the shots from behind, moved him 
from his firm base as little as did the cannons of 
Lee. On he pressed, stout as a Titan, relentless as 
fate; and what time bravest hearts fainted at vic- 
tory's delay, this Dreadnaught, this Hercules of ours, 
furnishing courage for the continent, forced the 
fighting, swung Antieus from the earth and crushed 
out his life. 

You will anticipate me in recalling another mark 
of this pervasive magnanimity. Grant's insistence 
that the full desert of his every subordinate should 
be recognized and rewarded. It led him not infre- 
quently to disown honors that were in fact his, that 
he might transfer them to others. From his reports 
of some of his decisive actions, one would hardly 
suppose him to have been present at all. Had he 
not willed it, no General but himself would have 
been heard of, the last two years of the war; yet 
half a score of them acquired their immortality then. 
He could not envy. Now it is Sherman who comes 
in for rich praise, now Sheridan, Thomas, Schofield, 
McPherson. Each of these is a hero, whose name 
schoolboys will recite while history is studied, but 
each, were he here, would declare it a chief founda- 
tion of his fame, that he served under so large- 
minded and appreciative commanding officer. 



ADDRESS BY PKOF. E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS. 39 

And could he who was so generous to friend l)e 
otherwise to foe? Let reply come from those Soutli- 
erii officers who marched home from Appomattox 
Court house, paroled, carrying their captor's bless- 
ings ; especially from such of them as, but for him, 
must have been put in new jeopardy of life on charge 
of treason! Ask the two gallant Confederates who 
yesterday felt his steel, to-day help carry his coffin ! 
Call back the shades of Robert E. Lee and inquire! 
Let even Mr. Jefferson Davis speak ! 

Nay, these need not testify. The world knows 
the answer and has emblazoned it upon the sky; 
that this matchless chieftain, whom a nation is at 
this moment lowering into his grave with tears, was 
as magnanimous after victory as he was terrible be- 
fore. 

Dying poor as Aristides, the subject of our eulogy 
left America two priceless and colossal legacies, his 
deeds and his character; and like wealth in general 
in whose soever hands it is, they will enrich the 
w^orld. "For of illustrious men," we read in Thucy- 
clides, "the whole earth is the sepulchre. Not alone 
by columns and inscriptions in their own country 
are they immortalized; they have their memorials 
in foreign lands as well, not of stone it may be, but 
unwritten, in the thoughts of men." 

Busts and statues w^ill be chiselled to commemo- 
rate our fallen leader. Be it ours, in the language 
of Tacitus, "so to venerate his memory as to catch 
the form and figure of his spirit, rather than of his 
body. Not that images of marble or of bronze should 
be forbidden, but that imitations of men's faces, like 



40 GKANT MEMORIAL. 

the faces themselves, are inadequate and mortal. 
Only the fashion of the spirit is eternal, and it is 
to be retained and expressed, not through matter, 
which is of a different nature, nor 3^et through art, 
but by character alone. In human spirits, then, and 
in history, whatever we have loved and admired in 
the deathless departed, shall abide till the end of 
time." 

The hymn, "The Lord is my Shepherd," Koschat, was 
then sung-, and Quartermaster General W. F. Hutchinson 
spoke substantially as follows : 

ADDRESS BY DR. W. F. HUTCHINSON. 

"It is to me a consoling thought," began Dr. 
Hutchinson, "in the sense of personal bereavement 
that comes to me to-day as it comes to us all, that 
General Grant was not made the victim of any mis- 
take of judgment or of care. If there w^ere the 
smallest suspicion that but for lack of human knowl- 
edge or skill our noble chieftain might still be with 
us, it would add bitterness to the grief that fills our 
hearts and stretches its pall far and wide over the 
land." The speaker briefly reviewed the progress 
of the fiital disease from the first dread warning re- 
ceived last November, through the days of fortitude 
and courage to the close ; when " on that lonely 
mountain, whose Scottish name has gained a New 
AVorld addition to its wide renown, Grant died. 
Soft breezes swept aside the curtains, caressed the 
unresponsive brow and vainly tried to enter that 
loyal breast whose heavings were so soon to be for- 
ever stilled. Around him were his dearest ones, 



ADDRESS BY DK. W. F. HUTCHINSON. 41 

and outside, spread wide over the civilized world, 
his greater famil}^ tearfully awaited the end. Slower 
and slower came the breathing, the heart grew weak 
and irregular, until, as dies the summer day when 
twilight softly comes, he ceased his la1:)0i' and was at 
rest. 

For us who yet wait, he has passed into that end- 
less night whence no ray of light has ever shone. 
Into that thick darkness only the eye of faith can 
penetrate, the faith taught by the Saviour in wdiom 
we trust. Yet not by that alone. The economy of 
God kiiows no eternal darkness. Even on earth, 
what is night to us is day to the dwellers in the an- 
tipodes and the shadows of our twilight are to them 
the rosy heralds of another morn. When the lids 
of those once flaming eyes closed in final farewell to 
this world it was but to a quick opening upon the 
full glory of another day, whose light is to know no 
fading, whose happy hours are to be the eternal 
guerdon of a well-spent life beneath the stars. There, 
up there amongst his men who have gone before, 
our General awaits us, but not alone. Hooker and 
Burnside, Meade and Lee and Jackson, with scores 
of other gallant comrades, have welcomed him to 
the home of the majority, where he, in turn, will 
greet those who follow in his footsteps. So it is not 
a last farewell we say to our old commander, it is 
but ''until we meet again." Even in his death his 
personal influence was manifest. He who in life 
had conquered peace, in death emphasized the vic- 
tory, and from the cottage on the hill there went 
forth over the nation a sentiment of universal grief 



42 GKANT MEMOKIAL. 

that was nearer akin to love than any feeling that 
had found expression since the great struggle ceased. 
But, after all, he is gone. Although we know 
that this change is a blessed gain, although no friend 
would recall him to suffering, he is departed and we 
may never see him more among us. Grief and 
mourning ever come before resignation, and as we 
gather to-day to speak our sorrow and mingle our 
tears with nearer friends, we can but trust that God 
will so order our lives that at their close we may 
again join our leader in the Grand Army of the 
blessed." 

The choir then sang tlie invocation, " Sleep, Comrade, 
Sleep," Dwyer, and United States Senator Nelson W. Aid- 
rich spoke as follows : 

ADDRESS BY HOX. N. W. ALDRICH. 

None of the distinguished honors which a sorrow- 
ing nation to-day bestows upon its illustrious dead 
can be more appropriate than the simple tributes of 
affection and admiration from Gen. Grant's compan- 
ions in arms. The veterans who followed the old 
flag to victory under his leadership may well claim 
the right to speak of their dead commander, for they 
had watched his career and studied his character for 
four anxious years, with a faith and an interest which 
none others could have felt. During those years of 
common peril and sufferings, in the midst of disas- 
ters and of humiliating failures, he won every heart 
by his soldierty address, and by deeds which have 
made his fame immortal. The graceful words of 
eulogy to which we have listened, by one who could 



ADDKESS BY HON. N. W. ALDRICH, 43 

speak with authority, have recalled the wonderful 
histor}^ of his life, his supreme devotion to duty, his 
indomitable tenacity of purpose, which neither an- 
ticipated nor accepted defeat; his manl}^ common 
sense, his penetrating clearness of vision and capacity 
to comprehend at all times and under allconditions 
of the tremendous conflict how best to use the forces 
at his command. These are some of the qualities 
which have made him the greatest captain of our 
age. His preeminent achievements entitle him to 
this distinction, and I believe that such will be the 
judgment of histor3\ In war success is the inevita- 
ble criterion of greatness, and his columns never ad- 
vanced but to victory. 

For the sake of both the living and of the dead, 
we may be thankful that the appreciation of the 
greatness of Gen. Grant and the mortuary' evidences 
of respect for his memory are shared by the brave 
men who fought under another flag. The presence 
to-day at his funeral of late Confederate generals is 
not alone a token of respect for his personal merits 
and military skill, and of gratitude for his magnan- 
imity in the hour of triumph. But I believe that 
the people of the South would be glad to give it a 
deejDcr significance, and glad to have it accepted as 
evidence of a complete acquiescence in the results of 
the war, and a desire on their part that the passions 
and jjrejudices called out by that struggle should be 
buried from sight forever. 

Assuming that the past is secure, let us recipro- 
cate, and victorious and vanquished together unite 
in harmony by the grave of our dead commander. 



44 GRANT MEMORIAL. 

Let US dedicate anew our lives to the service of the 
country he loved so well, to the glory of that indi- 
visible union of States he has done so much to pre- 
serve and to perpetuate. 

The liymu, "Farewell, Father, Friend and Guardian," 
Root, the solo being- admirably sustained by Mrs. Stone, was 
then sung-, and then the congreg-ation united with the choir 
in sing-ing- "America." The closing prayer and benediction 
was pronounced by Chaplain Frederic Denison, and at 1 
o'clock, the memorial service came to a close. The arrange- 
ments were admirable and complete in every particular, and 
the success of the memorial observance is largely due to the 
several committees who labored vigorously and indefatigably 
to that end. The speakers limited their remarks to the allot- 
ted time, and the singing by the choir was a most agreeable 
and impressive feature of the service. The comrades were 
dismissed at the hall, and doubtless spent the remaining 
hours of the day in reminiscence of the days of '61-'65, in 
M'hich the illustrious dead achieved his greatness as a soldier, 
and enshrined his memory u]3on the hearts of the Boys in 
Blue as well as the nation at lara-e. 



press f/otiee. 



LAID AT EEST. 

The last sad rite has been performed ; the last gun has 
been fired ; the tolling bells have ceased ; the great proces- 
sion has been dismissed, and after the quiet of this holy Sab- 
bath turn we again to our accustomed duties. May we all 
be stronger and better because Gen Grant lived — our oi^por- 
tunities are greater and our future brighter by reason of the 
great services he rendered. Let the lessons of his life sink 
deep into our hearts. When his country called, he was one 
of the first to respond, and he was willing, anxious to serve 
her even in humble station. He rose to the highest rank in 
the field and achieved a fame that surpassed that of any 
other American, but it was not by scheming and the pulling 
down of others that he rose. He was the same quiet, modest 
man as General of the army as when he commanded a com- 
pany of volunteers. He did his duty in whatever station he 
was placed. 

Gen. Grant was a man of deeds and not of words. While 
others planned and talked and promised, he acted. He was 
never discouraged. Disasters that would have disheartened 
other men only made him the more determined. His victo- 
ries were the fi'uit of long, persistent effort. It was on this 
line that he proposed to fight it out if it took all summer. 

Gen. Grant has left us a splendid example of fortitude in 
the face of death by disease. During the long months of 
sufi:ering no word of complaint fell from his lips. After he 
knew that his end was near, and when an ordinary man would 
have shrunk from even the lightest labors, he took up a work 
that would have been undertaken with reluctance even by 



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one 111 robust lieMltli and carried it tlirono-li with the same 
calm determination that marked his mihtary achievements. 

And last, but not least of the lessons he has left for us is 
that to be learned from his love for and devotion to his fam- 
ily. Every American home has been honored by it. May 
his example in this regard sink deep into the hearts of all 
our people.— 77/ e Star. 



Dir§^. 



In tlie Providence Journal of July 25tli appeared the fol- 
lowiug dirgeful lines, written on tlie day of tlie liero's death, 
while all the city bells were tolling : 

GENERAL GRANT. 

Toll, toll, each sacred bell, 

Hiislied now eacli joj^ous peal; 
The mournful strokes but tell 

The depth of grief we feel. 

Beyond where war-trump pleads, 

Our Captain ])eaceful sleeps; 
The nation, robed in weeds, 

As stricken mother weeps. 

The loyal bow to wreathe 
The bier where crowned he rests; 

The muffled drums but breathe 
The beatings of our breasts. 

Undaunted at his post, 

A lion-hearted brave, 
He marshalled Freedom's host 

And crowning victory gave. 

Such magnanimity, 

Untainted with conceit, 
His vanquished enemy 

Bent trusting at his feet. 

Oiir starry flag above 

The shrouded form we spread. 
In token of the love 

We bear the hero dead. 



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July -^3, ISS/. 



GEANT MEMORIAL. 

Dee]) sobs the storm-tossod main 

UiJon the burdened strand; 
Ho tlirobs with k)ss and pain 

The bosom of our land. 

Rest, valiant leader, rest, 

Chief in our chiefest war. 
Thy name unceasing blest, 

Undimmed shall glow thy star. 

F. Denison. 



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